Teamsters Internation Vice President Tom Erickson gave a strong shout-out to the Performance Food Groups workers in Gilroy, California, in support of their unionizing vote. Steve Beck, Ray Torres, and the entire staff at Teamsters Local 853 were also commended for the work they are doing.
It takes this kind of support to make sure our newest Sisters and Brothers have the backing to get in there and fight hard for a great contract.
Let’s go PFG workers, fight hard for your future!!!
Sisters and Brothers, a great victory to share with you. Patricia and Lucas were both wrongfully terminated at Kelloggs 19 months ago. After a lot of hard work coordinated by Ray Torres and shop steward Eric Calderone, we are happy to report that Patricia and Lucas are both back at work along with their Back Pay, Health Benefits, 401K, and pensions.
On behalf of Teamsters Local 853, we want to congratulate you on taking the first step to better Wages, Benefits, and Protections at your workplace by voting to unionize.
Our entire local of 13,000 members have your back and will support you in getting to the next step of getting a great contract.
Trust us; we will get this done well for you. But the road is hard, and we must all be strong.
Thank you to our Sister Local members who work for Performance Food Group down in the City of Industry. They have your back too. Here are two messages from Teamsters Local 630 from those members who know.
Let’s get it done!!
Ray Torres, Vice-President, Teamsters Local Union 853
Sisters and Brothers, In the battle for labor rights, there are two sides.
On our side, Unions fight to provide workers with good living wages and benefits for the work they do. On the other side are the employers and corporations that tirelessly pursue the exploitation of workers. Reducing wages and benefits so that they can make more profits for their owners.
This week, these two forces went head-to-head at Senator Bernie Sander’s hearing on Union-busting. Millionaire Republican Senator & business owner Markwayne Mullin questions Teamsters President Sean O’Brien. Senator Mullin used his time to air typical union-busting talking points. Implying that Unions are not needed because employers treat their employees so well.
The Players
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, a fourth-generation Teamster, has tirelessly battled for workers and their rights since the age of 18. Sean was present and being questioned by Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, whose reported net worth is between $31.6 million to $75.6 million.
Watch Sean O’Brien call out senator Mullin for being a greedy CEO. Mullin claimed his salary was 50K a year. So how did he become a multi-millionaire?
Senator Mullin refused to engage in any meaningful dialog, instead expressing a laundry list of common Union-busting playbook points. At one point, Sean O’Brien called the Senator on his out-of-line, union-busting rhetoric, and the Senator got so frustrated he told Sean “you need to shut your mouth”. Watch below.
Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, whose reported net worth is between $31.6 million to $75.6 million, claims he only paid himself $50,000 year. Mullin, at the hearing, claimed he started his career with “nothing” or “less than nothing.” His version of “nothing” was to take over his father’s plumbing business which had six employees at the time.
Watch Senator Mullin state that inheriting a six-person company from his dad was starting with “less than nothing.” How many workers would have loved to have senator Mullin’s version of “nothing”? His entitled perspective shows how out of touch he is with the circumstances of everyday workers in America.
Watch Senator Mullin use grossly inaccurate data to justify his anti-Union line of inquiry and watch O’Brien call him on it.
It’s up to all of us to fight back. How? Be an active member & get involved.
Sisters and Brothers, it is important to take the lessons from this incident and always understand that if we don’t remain active and vigilant against employers, they will always have politicians like Senator Mullin and Lobbyists working endlessly to strip you of the good paying jobs and benefits we have fought so hard for.
Self-righteous businessmen like Senator Mullin and other millionaire businessmen will always feel entitled to take what they want from their employees. They don’t want you to unionize because it gives workers the power to fight on equal footing with employers who would otherwise hold all the power.
Be as active as possible in our Union; we need your participation to strengthen us as we continue the fight for Union members everywhere.
Please help our fight and share this post with any Union sisters and brothers or Union-friendly people.
Teamsters Local 853 represents more than 13,000 members at more than 300 companies—from the Greater Bay Area out to Sacramento, and down to the Central Coast. If you meet a brother or sister from one of these companies, say hello!
18 Trucking, Inc.
Accurate Printing
Adprint
AEG Ticket Sellers & Takers
Affiliated Const. Owner Operators
Affiliated Concession Vendors
Aguilar Trucking
Albany Subaru
Alliance Graphics
Alpha Press, Inc.
Alsco American Linen Supply
Americold Logistics
Ameripride Uniform Services
Amports
Andreini Brothers
Anixter Inc.
Apache Partners
Aramark
Arb Inc. (Pipeline)
Argent Materials, Inc
Arkansas Best Freight
Athens Baking Co
Auto West Honda
Autonation Honda
Avis Car Rental
B. K. Mill & Fixture
Bakemark, Inc
Bauman Landscape and
Construction
Bay Area Paving Co
Bill Jacobson
Bimbo Bakeries USA
Bogetti Water Trucks
Bottomley Distributing Co
Brannon Equipment Sales & Leasing,
LLC
Budget Rent A Car (Truck Rental)
Building & Construction Trades of
Alameda County
C F Archibald
C.A. Cold Storage Co., Inc.
California Trade Bindery
Canteen
Cargill Salt Co-Refinery Loc. 1
Cemex USA
Central Concrete Supply
Certainteed Corporation
Challenge Dairy Products
Charles F Gagliasso Trucking, Inc
Cherin Furniture Co
Christy Vault Company
City & County of San Francisco
Classic Glass
Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc.
County Fair-Alameda
Coast Counties Truck & Equipment
Coast Litho
Compass Transportation
Consolidated Printers, Inc.
Core-Mark
Cost Plus Stores
Costco Wholesale
Cosumnes Community Services
County Fair-Monterey County
Crothall Laundry Services
CTWI
D & B Trenching, Inc
Davis Instruments Corp
Day-Lee Foods, Inc.
Del Mar Foods/Cold Storage
DFS-J.V.
DHL
Double D Transportation
Douglas Parking
Driscoll Strawberries, Inc.
DS Waters
Durham School Bus Services
East Bay Restaurant Supply Co
Economy Lumber Co
Economy Trucking Services, Inc.
EMJ Company
Farmers Bros Coffee Co
Farmers Produce
Fast Track Airport Parking
Ferguson Enterprises-Air Cold
Ferma Corp/Green Box
Firestar Productions
First Student - San Jose
First Transit
Fong & Associates
Foothill-DeAnza District-Payroll
Foster Farms Dairy
Fremont Universal Transportation Inc
G. Bortolotto & McPhail
GCR Tires & Services
Gatorade
Genesis Logistics
Gillig Corporation
Globe Forklift Co.
Gloria Washington Trucking , Inc
Glosage Engineering Inc.
Golden Brands-Sacramento
Golden Gate Fields
Golden Gate Freightliner
Goodland Landscape
GR4 Trucking Service
Graffik Dezine
Grafix
Granite Construction
Granite Rock Company Construction
Division
Graniterock
Greif Brothers Corporation
Guerra Construction Group
H W McKevitt Co
H.A. Rider & Sons
Hallcon Transportation
Half Moon Bay Sealing & Paving
Harbor Distributing Dba Golden
Brands
Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction
Healthcare Services Group
Henkel Corporation
Hertz Corp
Hill Brothers Chemical Co.
HVYW8 Inc.
Interstate Paving
J S Guerin Co.
J’s Quality Printing
JFC International Inc
Kellogg’s U.S.A. Inc.
Larsen Brothers Lumber Inc
Las Animas Concrete Inc
LAZ Parking
Le Boulanger the Baker LLC
Lehigh Southwest Cement Company
Lithotype Company, Inc.
LS Trucking, Inc
MacMurray Pacific
Macy’s Logistics
Macy’s
Master Builders
Matagranos Inc
McGuire & Hester
Mercado Trucking LLC
Mercurio Brothers Printing
Mission Linen
Mondelez Global LLC
Monterey Mechanical Co
Mosaic Global Transportation
Mountain Cascade, Inc.
MV Transportation
National Car Rental
Naturipe Berry Growers Cold Storage
Northrop Grumman Marine Systems
O C Jones & Sons
O’Grady Paving Company
Operating Engineers Print Shop
Osborne Lumber Co
Outfront Media
Pacific Racing Association
Pajaro Dunes South Association
Pajaro Valley Cold Storage Co.
Pak N’ Save
Park N Fly, Inc.
Peerless Coffee Company
Peninsula Crane and Rigging Inc
Penske Truck Leasing Inc.
Pepsi Cola West
Perfect Image Printing
Pine Cone Lumber
Pipeline Project
Pleasanton Ready Mix Concrete
PPG Industries
Precision Sweeping
Premier Parking
Primesource Building Products, Inc.
Pro Forma Resources
Prudential Overalls/Clean Room
Services
Pyramid Painting Inc.
QLM Inc.
Ransome Company
Redgwick Construction Co.
Reed And Graham Inc
Reef Parking
Reliance Metals
Reyes Coca ColaRight Away Redy Mix
River Distributing Co., LLC
RNDC
Ryde Transit
Ryder Truck Rental
S Martinelli & Company
S.S.A.Terminals, LLC
Safeway Bakery/Milk Plant
San Francisco Unified School District
San Jose Convention Center
San Jose Transport
San Pablo Automotive Supply
Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce
Scan Art/Pacific Resources
Schawk, Inc.
Second Harvest Food Bank
SFO RAC
Sierra Pacific
Sims Metal
Snelson Companies
Sonoco
SP+ Transportation
Spicer’s
Spot Light Printing Company
STA - San Jose
Statewide Construction Sweeping
Statewide Owner Operators
Steeler, Inc
Storer Transit Systems
Superior Modular Transport Inc
SWGS
Sysco Food Service of San Francisco,
Inc.
T. Marzetti Company
Teamsters Local 517
Teichert Construction
The Ford Store
Time Printing
Times Printing Company
Top Grade Construction
Top Shelf Packaging
Township Retail Services, Inc
Transdev
Tri Valley Water Trucks, Inc
Truitt & White Lumber Co
United Natural Foods (UNFI)
United Parcel Service
Urban Art Lithography, Inc.
USF Reddaway
Vanguard Construction
Vulcan Materials Company
Watsonville Community Hospital
We Drive U
West Coast Vending
West Valley Construction Co., Inc
Westrock
Westside Building Materials
White Brothers
Wingfoot Com. Tire
Zenith American Solutions
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Join your brothers and sisters in the labor movement for a great game in Oakland – A’s vs. Yankees on April 15. Contact the Alameda Building Trades Council (btca@btcalameda.org) or the Labor Council (xsanchez@alamedalabor.org) for details on how you can get tickets to this event.
